On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:34 PM, George Abraham
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I could look, but what does S3's usage policy say about that kind of
> offloading?

This use case is exactly the point of S3's existence.  It's redundant,
scalable, and ridiculously inexpensive.

> Does that also mean that the application now also has to
> maintain assets in 2 different places? Some of my users would really balk at
> that. But an intriguing suggestion, nonetheless.

Well, it'd be one place, on S3.  No need to keep them on your
infrastructure at all.  There are privacy concerns, for sure, but
again, S3 is designed for this use case.  If the perception that
Amazon's IT team is less trustworthy than the IT team at wherever your
servers are located, can't help you there.  ;)

> This seems more in line with keeping things in-house. I like that. Any
> pointers to where I could start? Or what I should google? :-)

No idea.

cheers,
barneyb

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